New open source projects have been launched by KDE developers aimed at bringing a consistent user interface across a varied of touch screen interfaces like tablets and entertainment devices and take data integration to a new level. The new Plasma Active and Contour projects were developed to offer a new user experience for tablets, smartphones and set top boxes.

Yes, but if there's no one with at least little knowledge on user research among developers, it will only be "a developer's dream", failing to be actually useful, like Plasma on Desktop is and Gnome Shell probably will be